scrattling

English

Verb

scrattling

present participle and gerund of scrattle

Adjective

scrattling (comparative more scrattling, superlative most scrattling)

Scanty, beggarly.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
  "And he gives me a scrattlin' twenty-five, an' his club this week! But I know him. He thinks because YOU'RE earning he needn't keep the house any longer. No, all he has to do with his money is to guttle it. But I'll show him!"

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